Philosophy

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Walter Benjamin

Une approche différente de la philosophie benjamienne.

Walter Benjamin est à la fois une monographie et un commentaire philosophique sur la société contemporaine, vus à travers une pensée benjamienne. ...

Sweet Nothing

A philosophical memoir, powerfully woven together by a personal narrative of the Italian immigrant experience, Sweet Nothing is an eco-feminist, spiritual and philosophical lament against the increasing ...

En compagnie des Grecs

S’initier à une discipline intellectuelle comme la philosophie constitue une aventure fascinante sur les plans de la connaissance et de l’expérience.

L’originalité de l’ouvrage consiste à ...

The Undiscovered Country

By (author) Ian Angus
Categories: Philosophy
Series: Cultural Dialectics

In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for ...

Northern Spirits

By (author) Robert C. Sibley
Categories: Philosophy

Robert Sibley, a senior writer with the Ottawa Citizen, has a Ph. D in political science from Carleton University.

The Ethical Imagination

Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and ...

Philosophical Conversations

By (author) Robert M. Martin
Categories: Philosophy

Philosophical Conversations is a light, informal, and contemporary introduction to the study of philosophy. Using a dialogue format, Robert M. Martin delves into the traditional questions of philosophy ...

Social Policy and the Ethic of Care

Social Policy and the Ethic of Care bridges the gap between theoretical and public policy analysis in revealing why Canadian social policy is lacking and how it could be made more effective and robust ...

Hypocrisy

What is a hypocrite? What role does hypocrisy play in our lives? Why is it thought to be such an ugly vice? Is it ever acceptable? What do we lose in our indifference to it?

Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations ...

Practical Judgments

By (author) Mark Kingwell
Categories: Philosophy

What does it mean to be both a professor of philosophy and a public intellectual in an age when every CEO is hailed as an intellectual, every adman a visionary? When the opinions of TV pundits and ‘fast ...